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It's fascinating to see how pathetic this roadmap is. The totality (100%) of their planned features are already available on chromium. Guess what, even after th
by The_rationalist 7y ago
It's fascinating to see how pathetic this roadmap is.
The totality (100%) of their planned features are already available on chromium.
Guess what, even after that the chromium of today (not 2020) still has an order of magnitude more features, optimisations and testing.
In human hours wise, comparing the number of full-time safari developers vs the number of full-time chromium (Google, Microsoft, opera, etc) developers is like comparing a third world country vs the USA GDP.
Or more exactly:
217,369 commits vs 835,383 commits!
Apple should just be rational and make the same synergistic move as Microsoft: migrate to chromium.
It would save them R&W (reinventing the wheel) money, and they could allocate it to true R&D, allowing the web to move forward for making the world a better place.
If for whatever reason they wanted to opt out of some chromium features such as PWA they could still do it.
With such absurd politics, I wonder how Apple survived through history. Indeed the lack of rationality from the demand must help and irrational supply to thrive.
- The_rationalist 7y agoReaders don't feel in accordance with my analysis. Sadly no thoughts have yet been outputed..
- Razengan 7y ago> Apple should just be rational and make the same synergistic move as Microsoft: migrate to chromium. It would save them R&W (reinventing the wheel) money, and they could allocate it to true R&D, allowing the web to move forward for making the world a better place. Chromium is a descendant of WebKit in the first place... > With such absurd politics, I wonder how Apple survived through history. Because users agree with them.
- The_rationalist 7y agoChromium is a descendant of WebKit in the first place... And safari is a descendant of KHTML, double standard I guess? The world change.
- hirsin 7y agoNote that the logged in API is not supported in Chrom(e|ium). That WI be a big deal when finished because it will help with user privacy without breaking things.
- The_rationalist 7y agoInteresting to know, but they could develop this feature inside chromium so it is a moot point. Moreover features only supported by safari will be used by exactly 0% of web developers.